University of Pennsylvania, LJS 407

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS654

Shelfmark:

LJS 407

Title:

Collection of astronomical texts.

Author:

Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 / طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد، 1201-1274

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi WIKIDATA

Date:

[between 1500 and 1599?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Persian

Persian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 77 leaves : paper ; 166 x 112 (150 x 85) mm bound to 175 x 120 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Paper: Wove paper.
Origin: Item is undated; perhaps copied in the 16th century.
Binding: Later red leather over pasteboard; gilt stamped with inlay central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis; spine at the manuscript's top edge, like a notepad.
Foliation: Paper, i + 77 + i; [1-77], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Script: Written in a naskh script by a single hand.
Decoration: 15 astronomical diagrams in red and black; rubrications in red.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Keyword:

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Manuscripts

handbooks

inlays (decorative components)

anthologies

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Persian

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950826723503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37h4v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania